Mike Trout

If the sight of Clayton Kershaw returning to the mound Saturday provided a welcome relief to the concerned patrons at Dodger Stadium, the performance that followed granted them another opportunity to celebrate his brilliance. In a start that was postponed twice by a sore hip, Kershaw pitched eight shutout innings to lead the Dodgers to a 3-1 victory over the Angels and extend his scoreless streak to 37 innings. He gave up only two hits. He struck out seven and walked one. He retired Mike Trout in all three at-bats of baseball's first matchup of reigning most valuable players, most memorably in the first inning on a paralysis-inducing curveball for a called third strike. ...

Related "Mike Trout" Articles

ST. PETERSBURG — Fans attending the Tampa Bay Rays game Friday did not have to wait long for arguably the most exciting player in baseball to do something impressive.
With a runner on first base, the second batter of the game walked onto the field for...

Clayton Kershaw and Mike Trout made history at Dodger Stadium on Saturday. It was the first time that a reigning MVP from the National League faced a reigning MVP from the American League. Trout was 0 for 3 against Kershaw, who extended his scoreless...

That torrid stretch in which the Angels won 17 of 20 games from June 27 to July 22 seemed a distant memory Thursday night as Jason Castro's walk-off three-run home run sailed into the right-center field seats in Minute Maid Park.
Castro's shot off...

Catch of the Day in Anaheim? Trout, of course. A prescient Angels fan brought a huge fishing net complete with letters spelling out "Trout net!" attached to its rim to Sunday's game against Texas. And sure enough, sitting in the...

ANAHEIM, Calif. Mike Trout, rubber wrist and all, kept the Texas Rangers from the weekend sweep of the Los Angeles Angels that they coveted and needed. The Rangers cut a game from their deficit in the American League West by winning the first two...

Josh Hamilton stepped to the plate with a rueful smirk while boos cascaded down from the Angel Stadium stands. The slugger looked at Angels catcher Chris Iannetta and grinned. "It's just like (when) I was playing here," Hamilton said. "They...

Not that the Angels like it, but the Houston Astros' trade for Scott Kazmir paid off so well, so soon.
On Thursday, the Astros acquired Kazmir, to form a dynamic duo with Dallas Keuchel atop the Houston rotation. On Friday, in his Astros debut, Kazmir...

Mike Trout returned to the Angels’ lineup as the designated hitter for Wednesday night’s game against the Minnesota Twins, one day after the center fielder missed his first game of the season because of a left heel injury.
“It feels a lot better...

A look at what's happening all around the major leagues today: ___ TROUT READY? The Angels will check to see if center fielder Mike Trout can return to the starting lineup. The reigning AL MVP was scratched from the series opener at home against Minnesota...

Los Angeles Angels center fielder Mike Trout has been scratched from the series opener against Minnesota because of a sore left heel. Trout, who won his second straight All-Star Game MVP award a week ago, said he felt an aching discomfort while walking...

To commemorate Angels center fielder Mike Trout’s 2014 American League most-valuable-player award, a life-size bobblehead of Trout, standing 6 feet 2, will be unveiled in the Music Garden/Trout Farm area outside Angel Stadium at about 5 p.m. on Friday.
...

Mike Trout started every one of the team's first 92 games, 89 in center field and three at designated hitter, playing 805 of a possible 817 innings at the break-neck pace he's maintained for four years.
Considering the way Trout dives into gaps, leaps...

Although Albert Pujols doesn't much care for celebrations outside of October, he smiled and stood still when Mike Trout and Erick Aybar ran up and doused him with two postgame buckets of ice and liquid. After a landmark night even by this prolific power...

A large crowd filed into Angel Stadium and witnessed history Sunday night, and it had nothing to do with Mike Trout or Albert Pujols.
The Angels' game against the Boston Red Sox was rained out, the first Angel Stadium rainout in 20 years and the 10th...

A look at what's happening all around the major leagues today: ___ ZACK'S ZEROS Dodgers ace Zack Greinke takes a shutout streak of 35 2/3 innings into his start at Washington. He gave a home run to Mike Trout leading off the All-Star Game, but those stats...

Mike Trout returned from his “whirlwind” of an All-Star break, the Angels center fielder's two days in Cincinnati highlighted by winning All-Star game most-valuable-player honors for the second straight year and watching fellow New Jersey native Todd...

Yo, Mike Trout: You do know it's the Baseball All-Star Game and not the Celebrity Softball Game, right? How else to explain the young Angels star putting up slow-pitch numbers a .500 batting average and a 1.200 slugging percentage in 10 at-bats...

The Josh Hamilton saga began in late February and dragged on for two months, the Angels expressing "serious concerns" about the outfielder's "health, conduct and behavior" after his substance-abuse relapse and swallowing $60 million of...

The Cardinals are really good, the Phillies are really bad, and then there's everyone else. Mike Trout, Bryce Harper, Jacob deGrom and a bevy of stars bunched near the top. Giancarlo Stanton, Miguel Cabrera and more big names coming back from injuries....